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Margaret Sanger: The real hope...

Margaret Sanger: The real hope...

The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big...

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Carry Nation: Oh, I tell...

Carry Nation: Oh, I tell...

Oh, I tell you, ladies, you never know what joy it gives you to start out to smash a...

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Helen Keller: Not the senses...

Helen Keller: Not the senses...

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

Source: In The...

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Linda Ellerbee: How is it...

Linda Ellerbee: How is it...

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew,...

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Linda Ellerbee: I think laughter...

Linda Ellerbee: I think laughter...

I think laughter may be a form of courage. . . . As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh,...

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Peg Bracken: This wild emaciated...

Peg Bracken: This wild emaciated...

This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue...

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Flannery O'Connor: Everywhere I go...

Flannery O'Connor: Everywhere I go...

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of...

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Alice Walker: God is inside...

Alice Walker: God is inside...

God is inside you and inside everybody else. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: The road was...

Sarah Orne Jewett: The road was...

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

Source: The Country of the...

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Harper Lee: I'm no idealist...

Harper Lee: I'm no idealist...

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it...

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Jane Austen: Nothing is more...

Jane Austen: Nothing is more...

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an...

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Gloria Naylor: It's as if...

Gloria Naylor: It's as if...

It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body -- an overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: If I make...

Marguerite Yourcenar: If I make...

If I make it, I will carry a pencil instead of the ritual sword.

Source: On her...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: But to some...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: But to some...

But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children,...

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Marguerite Duras: The thing that's...

Marguerite Duras: The thing that's...

The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a...

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Willa Cather: Winter lies too...

Willa Cather: Winter lies too...

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and...

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Ursula Le Guin: I doubt that...

Ursula Le Guin: I doubt that...

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an...

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Anne Sophie Swetchine: In order to...

Anne Sophie Swetchine: In order to...

In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A...

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Zelda Fitzgerald: By the time...

Zelda Fitzgerald: By the time...

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long...

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Elizabeth Dole: We have learned...

Elizabeth Dole: We have learned...

We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

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